Amnesty International has released a scathing report on China's unfilled promises to improve human rights.
Worse, the report claims human rights abuses have deteriorated since its last report in April.
Published ten-days before the start of the games, Amnesty's report claims Chinese authorities are persecuting individuals who may tarnish the sanitized image of the games.
The organization also claims its website is no longer accessible in China.
In a separate article by International Herald Tribune journalist Andrew Jacobs, China will officially censor the internet during the games with the complicit aid of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Both IOC and China previously claimed 20,000 journalists covering the games would have unprecedented press freedoms.
Sites dealing with Tibetan succession, Taiwanese independence, the violent crackdown of the protests in Tiananmen Square and the sites of Amnesty International, Radio Free Asia and several Hong Kong newspaper are no longer accessible in China.
